Article June 4, 1955 Issue

CHRIST

JAMES G. ROWELL

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gives this definition of "Christ" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 583): "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."

Since God, the Father and Mother of all, is not appreciable to material sense, neither can Christ, "the divine manifestation of God," be appreciable to material sense. Spiritual sense alone beholds and understands God and His Christ.

The Christ is a vast subject. All that there is to effect and law, man and divine Science, is included in this subject. The Christ cannot be defined in full merely in terms of a single one of its many facets. Though Christ, "the divine manifestation of God," is one in essence with God, yet Christ, Truth, has of itself numerous, distinctive aspects. If one is at a loss to explain Christ, Truth, "the divine manifestation of God," fully, it is because he has not yet become aware of the many aspects of the office of the Christ. Christian Scientists will be compelled through necessity to progress and expand their thinking to embrace aspects of the Christ or "the divine manifestation of God," which are not yet comprehended. They must embrace these aspects not only for their own salvation from incarnate error but for that of all mankind.

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